Adverse Perinatal Outcomes among Adolescent Pregnant Women Living with HIV: A Propensity-Score-Matched Study.

HIV infection and adolescent pregnancy are known to increase the risk of adverse perinatal outcomes. However, data are limited concerning the outcomes of pregnancies among adolescent girls living with HIV. This retrospective propensity-score matched study aimed to compare adverse perinatal outcomes in adolescent pregnant women living with HIV (APW-HIV-positive) with HIV-negative adolescent pregnant women (APW-HIV-negative) and adult pregnant women with HIV (PW-HIV).

Prevalence of oncogenic human papillomavirus in pregnant adolescents, association with colpocytological changes, risk factors and obstetric outcomes.

Purpose: The authors aim to carry out an investigation on the impact of cervical oncogenic Human Papillomavirus (HPV) detection in pregnant adolescents, to clarify the prevalence and risk factors, considering the importance and lack of data on this topic in Brazil.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with adolescents receiving prenatal care in a tertiary hospital in São Paulo, Brazil, with routine Pap smear and oncogenic HPV detection test in the uterine cervix. The authors sought to associate the results of these tests with demographic and obstetric variables.

Bacteriuria in Pregnant Adolescents and Behavioral Risk Factors: A Cross-Sectional Study at a Brazilian Teaching Hospital.

Introduction: Bacteriuria during pregnancy is a frequent and important cause of morbidity and complications. Data on its occurrence in pregnant adolescents are still scarce.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted at a tertiary teaching hospital in São Paulo, Brazil.

[Maternal and perinatal outcome in patients with severe systolic dysfunction].

Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate maternal and fetal outcome in patients with severe left ventricle systolic dysfunction followed in a tertiary-care hospital.

Methods: We retrospectively evaluated 12 pregnant women with severe systolic dysfunction, defined as a ejection fraction<40%. Follow-up data included functional class evaluation, occurrence of cardiac and obstetric events, labor data and neonatal outcome.